Bungie Reveals What's Up With Destiny's Companion App

Bungie has revealed some of the features you'll find in Destiny's
free companion app.

Bungie's Chris Gossett showed
off the app to IGN, and the companion aims to give players a wealth of info about players' characters, including real-time 3D models of them. Players can also check out 3D
models of weapons and armor that they acquire, and equip them through the app,
which instantly carries over to the game.

Destiny's companion app also lets you check out your
characters' stats, missions, and bounties, as well as the game's extended lore.
Gossett says the app works with all console versions of the game, and will be
available on iOS, Android, and the web. IGN notes that only the iPhone is being
supported for iOS during the beta, but that an iPad version will be available
at launch. To see a video of the app in action, check out the IGN link below.

The Destiny beta begins on PlayStation platforms this Thursday, July 17. Xbox gamers will have access on July 23, with everything wrapping up on July 27. The title will release on Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 3 on September 9.

Our TakeI'm not a big fan of second-screen
apps – If I'm playing a game, I want to be focused on my actual television screen, and
not my phone or tablet. I am a stat junkie, however, and having the plethora of
extra info that Bungie tracks available when I'm out of the game is an enticing
proposition. It's also free, so I guess I don't have any excuse not to at least
check it out.

I bought the Digital Guardian Edition for the PS4. I already paid it in full on PSN. So can somebody tell me how or when I'm gonna get that damn Beta code?
I got it on PS4 instead of XboxOne (I have both) cause my 4 other friends went that direction and I wanna play with them. ...........and I had to justify dropping $400 on the PS4 somehow. So far I haven't found anything worth playing on it. (I mean exclusives). If its multi-platform I prefer Xbox.
Anyway, I digress.........when am I gonna get my Damn Beta Code?????

Occasionally, I like the sound of a companion app, but more often than not, it's something I look at once, then disregard and delete. One of the few that was useful was the Nba 2K app, only because you got in-game currency to use. Other recent ones, like for Watch Dogs, I got rid of right away. The lore aspect for this Destiny app might be a cool feature.

"I'm not a big fan of second-screen apps – If I'm playing a game, I want to be focused on my actual television screen, and not my phone or tablet."
If I could figure out how to make my tv pop up a mini screen for my pc to look up stuff, I would(if that is possible let me know) but till then I'm using my phone as I play games like Dragon's Dogma(*** really requires you to know before you do anything)

I don't care for or use second-screen, being my phone, iPad or PSVita. Also not really concern about my stats either. I hope companies don't waste to much time or money on this until they have the data that people want it.

I do try and check out the apps just knowing that someone has put time and energy into hopefully making the game more engaging. The only second-screen I use in on the Wii U.

I like this idea for a companion app, but after Watch Dogs, I feel like this is a bit too little. My free Watch Dogs app actually has logged as much time as the full-fledged game, and it's a big hit as a two-player experience. For us, it's a nice quick diversion that's perfect for an iPad game, and it's nice to be able to have that interactivity with the full game when we want to play together. I'd like to see more games try to integrate gameplay into their companion apps, as opposed to simply using it as a secondary screen to display data.

In Watch Dogs, it added something that wasn't available in the primary game: the opportunity to play as the police, and the ability to have some semblance of local multiplayer. Here, it doesn't seem to add anything new to the experience.

I would complain they didn't make it for the Windows Phone but then I realized I wouldn't even use it anyway if I still had my iPhone. I can check my armor and weapons in game, and if I want to view stats I'll be on my computer. I'm not going to obsess over this game and be checking my crap everywhere I go.